{"id":26279,"date":"2020-12-14T15:18:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=26279"},"modified":"2021-01-03T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T14:22:01","slug":"le-grand-inquisiteur-de-michael-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2020\/12\/14\/le-grand-inquisiteur-de-michael-reeves\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Grand Inquisiteur de Michael Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Le grand inquisiteur<\/em> (<em>Witchfinder General<\/em>, 1968) offre \u00e0 Vincent Price l\u2019un de ses r\u00f4les les plus m\u00e9morables, d\u00e9nu\u00e9 de l\u2019humour dont il saupoudra nombres de ses compositions \u2013 voir <em>Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de sang<\/em> ou <em>L\u2019Abominable Docteur Phibes<\/em> r\u00e9cemment \u00e9voqu\u00e9s sur ce blog. Il faut dire que Price n\u2019\u00e9tait pas l\u2019acteur d\u00e9sir\u00e9 par Michael Reeves qui souhaitait confier le r\u00f4le de l\u2019inf\u00e2me Matthew Hopkins, chasseur de sorci\u00e8res dans l\u2019Angleterre du XVII\u00e8me si\u00e8cle \u00e0 Donald Pleasence. Pleasence aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 parfait pour incarner cet \u00eatre vil et lubrique, sans aucune conviction religieuse ni r\u00e9elle autorit\u00e9, qui pers\u00e9cutait des femmes pour assouvir ses pulsions sexuelles, ou torturait des opposants politiques pour affermir son pouvoir, sous le fallacieux pr\u00e9texte de sorcellerie. Ce sont les coproducteurs d\u2019American International Pictures qui impos\u00e8rent Price pour garantir au film un certain succ\u00e8s sur le march\u00e9 am\u00e9ricain. L\u2019acteur, \u00e0 contre-emploi, s\u2019en sort avec les honneurs et nous prive de son habituel cabotinage, gr\u00e2ce aux strictes directives de Michael Reeves, \u00e2g\u00e9 de 24 ans au moment du tournage. Le jeune cin\u00e9aste, s\u2019il se permet quelques libert\u00e9s avec la v\u00e9ritable histoire de Matthew Hopkins, opte pour un r\u00e9alisme et un s\u00e9rieux qui tranchent avec le kitsch assum\u00e9 des productions horrifiques de la fin des ann\u00e9es 60. Situ\u00e9 pendant la Premi\u00e8re r\u00e9volution anglaise \u2013 Cromwell y fait m\u00eame une apparition, <em>Le Grand Inquisiteur<\/em> s\u2019apparente par bien des aspects \u00e0 un western europ\u00e9en. Reeves, qui \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s cin\u00e9phile, met en valeur les paysages du Suffolk et du Norfolk, prend plaisir \u00e0 filmer des cavalcades et surtout illustre le th\u00e8me westernien de la vengeance. S\u2019il citait Anthony Mann comme sa principale r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, c\u2019est surtout \u00e0 Sam Peckinpah que l\u2019on pense devant <em>Le Grand Inquisiteur<\/em>. La violence du film, son esth\u00e9tique rugueuse et son climat de corruption morale et physique ne sont pas sans \u00e9voquer <em>Les Chiens de paille<\/em> que Peckinpah allait r\u00e9aliser trois ans plus tard dans la campagne anglaise. <em>Le Grand Inquisiteur<\/em> demeure l\u2019ultime film du talentueux Michael Reeves, disparu pr\u00e9matur\u00e9ment en 1969. <em>Le Grand Inquisiteur<\/em>, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour ses \u00e9prouvantes sc\u00e8nes de tortures et d\u2019ex\u00e9cutions, subit plusieurs coupes au gr\u00e9 de son exploitation commerciale en salle et en vid\u00e9o, ainsi qu\u2019un montage alternatif pour sa distribution aux \u00c9tats-Unis. L\u2019\u00e9diteur BQHL nous le propose pour la premi\u00e8re fois en Blu-ray, dans sa version int\u00e9grale anglaise, avec un livret tr\u00e8s instructif et une savante pr\u00e9sentation par Bruno Terrier, le taulier de la boutique Metaluna, bien connue des amoureux de cin\u00e9ma fantastique.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-grand-inquisiteur-3573310011112_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le grand inquisiteur (Witchfinder General, 1968) offre \u00e0 Vincent Price l\u2019un de ses r\u00f4les les plus m\u00e9morables, d\u00e9nu\u00e9 de l\u2019humour\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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